The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.